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The instance is now hosted on a dedicated infrastructure from OVH consisting of two VPS and a S3 bucket for object storage.

The first server, atlas_1, is hosting Mastodon, Sidekick & an Elasticsearch for full-text search, while the second one, atlas_2, is home for PostgreSQL & Redis. Both are located in France and backed up on a daily basis on servers located in Canada.

We also implemented S3 object storage, relying on a bucket provided by OVH as well and located in France. The bucket is fully replicated on another one in Germany. We've configured Fastly as a CDN in front of the object storage to enable faster access to media.

The migration process took longer than expected, due to configuration issues with media storage. Hugo Gameiro at @mastohost@mastodon.social helped us resolve them, among other things along the process.

If you ever fancy running your own Mastodon instance, https://masto.host is definitely the way to go. All along our three years there, not only was the service impeccable, but Hugo was always available, kind and helpful. Cheers and thanks!

You might experience missing medias on your timeline. To get them back, you need to clear your browser cache as it's probably still trying to load medias from the previous infra. Ctrl + Shift + R usually does the trick. We'll also have to wait for a few days before getting full access to the full-text search functionality. Apart from that, all lights are green.

Say hello to https://Mapstodon.Space, reloaded!

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